In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
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The development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
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